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NH 99831 USS Walke

Photo #: NH 99831 USS Walke
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Title: USS Walke
Description: (Destroyer # 34) Sailors pose with a diving helmet, weighted diver's boots and a recompression chamber installed on the ship's deck for deep diving tests conducted in Long Island Sound during late October and early November 1914. A dive made on 3 November 1914 reached the then-record depth of 274 feet. Note air lines running from the valve, at left, to the recompression chamber. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 99831
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